Introducing Millworks: The team behind Caliper
We enable data driven decisions.
Our Values
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20+ years of experience in the analytics space delivering the features customers want, fast.
We’ve managed transitions from data centers to public cloud, and later through business model changes from on-premises to cloud transitions that resulted in sharp increases in cloud and consumption costs. We understand this ever-evolving problem area and continue to innovate as technology changes.
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In this industry, technology changes rapidly. Informed decisions need immediate data.
We know cloud and consumption costs can escalate in an instant. We understand the importance of addressing reliability and security risks as quickly as they arise.
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Making Caliper the easiest to use means complex problems are solved effortlessly.
From onboarding to rapid value realization, from how our support team engages with our customers to transparent pricing, we keep everything simple.
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We put clients first in all our decisions. It’s been part of the product roadmap since our inception.
We are invested in our customers' success. Throughout all our decisions, we apply rigorous thought processes that examine and execute on the customers' best interest.
Our Team
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FOUNDER & CEO
Damon Fletcher has more than 20 years of leadership experience focused on technology and finance, most recently as CFO for DataRobot, and just prior to that at Tableau Software.
As CFO of Tableau, Fletcher helped navigate Tableau’s shift to a subscription-based model, leading the company to more than $1 billion in revenue. In June of 2019, Fletcher was instrumental in Tableau’s acquisition by Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) for $15.7 billion in stock.
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FOUNDER
Dan Duryea has more than 20 years of experience leading finance organizations in the real estate and technology industry, most recently as the CFO at House of Design Robotics.
Prior to that, Duryea served as the CFO at Ten-X Commercial, which led to a successful acquisition by Co-Star.
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FOUNDER & CTO
Michael Arvold has more than 20 years of experience with leading technology companies, most recently at Tableau Software as a Senior Director, reporting directly to the CTO.
Previously, Arvold worked at Microsoft on PowerPoint and Word, and made contributions to the entire Microsoft Office suite.
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SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Anna Lee Barber has more than six years of experience in engineering, most recently as a Senior Software Engineer on the prototyping team at Tableau Software.
Prior to that experience, Barber was a Software Engineer at BevSpot, a start-up in the technology industry.
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HEAD OF SALES
Matt Andrews has more than a decade of enabling customer success in data and analytics software, recently coming from enterprise account management at Alation and prior to that at Tableau Software.
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ADVISOR, PRODUCT
Farhan Mustafa has more than 20 years of experience as an economist, data journalist, product manager, analytics startup founder and, most recently, Director of Product Management for Prototypes at Tableau.
He’s launched enterprise products across areas like insights recommendations, collaboration, artificial intelligence and machine learning, natural language processing and knowledge graphs.
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ADVISOR, PRODUCT & GROWTH MARKETING
Gavin Gee has over 25 years of experience in the technology industry, most recently as the VP of Product & Growth at DataRobot. Prior to that, Gee served as the Head of GTM, Growth, and Product at AWS and had various Product, Marketing, and GTM roles at Microsoft beforehand.
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ADVISOR, LEGAL
Kelly Blazy brings more than 25 years of legal experience in the technology space. Prior to joining Millworks as an Advisor, Blazy served on the executive team at Tableau where she built out a global commercial legal team.
Prior to joining Tableau, she served at Concur in various senior positions on the commercial legal team.
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ADVISOR, INVESTOR RELATIONS
Derek Wong recently founded Rubato Consulting Group to help tech startups build durable relationships with long-term institutional investors and to help these growing companies fully prepare for a successful IPO.
Prior to Rubato, Wong revamped Investor Relations at Tableau Software, leading up to the company’s successful acquisition by Salesforce.
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ADVISOR, CUSTOMER VOICE
Trevor has more than 15 years of finance, operations and project management expertise in the technology industry. He is an active member of the FinOps community, with deep expertise building cloud infrastructure and FinOps programs at leading companies such as Takeda Pharmaceutical, DataRobot, IBM and Microsoft.
Our History
We founded Millworks based on a need identified by decades of experience and insights our team gained while navigating the industry’s complex transition to the cloud. We’re watching firsthand how consumption business models can rapidly increase costs and hugely impact earnings. We developed Caliper to deliver fast and visual exposures of that.
The cloud is an amazing technology advancement, but costs can spiral out of control if they’re not measured and managed on an ongoing basis. Further complicating the issue, different business models and their unique characteristics often lead to decentralized decisions by individuals from different roles across an organization.
We knew being able to drill down in a more and more precise manner, and providing much needed visibility to key decision makers is the way to solve this problem in a sustainable way. We know from experience that all cloud environments evolve rapidly, whether it be customer behavior or new features or products that fluctuate demand and usage, and there’s a clear and present need to ask deeper and more complex questions of data. Making changes to your cloud environment requires thoughtful analysis and can't be taken lightly. There was no easy button.
We also know from experience the solution needs to be simple and easy to use. FinOps and DevOps need to be able to speak a common language around the data. More importantly, we know in today’s environment, the solution needs to be cost efficient.
Caliper is that solution.